Base-ball-game board.



W. C. TILMBS & F. G. KALLMEYBB.. BASE BALL GAME BOARD.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. so, 1909.

969,424. Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

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WILLIAM C. TILMES AND FREDERICK G. KALLMEYER, OF CINCINNATI, OHI..

BASE-BALL-GAME BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 6, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. TILMEs and FREDERICK G. KALLMEYER, citizens of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in' the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful provements in Base-Ball-Game Boards, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to base-ball game boards, and our object is to provide a game board representing, in miniature,` a base-ball field, upon which may be layed a parlor game having the essential fp ball.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and .arrangements of the various subdivisions of the board, and in the relative shapes and sizes of said subdivisions; also in the peculiar forms ofballs or missiles used, and in the meansv and manner of projecting the same in connection with the board, all of whichvwill be more particularly described and claimed in the appended spec1- fication, reference-bein had to the accompanying drawings, in w ichf Figure l is a plan View of the board complete; Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustratlng the batting arrangement; Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are different forms of balls or missiles that may be used in our invention; and, Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the home plate.

The game is to The ortions of the field supposed to be occupie or uarded by the men not at the bat, are all ounded by lines more or less curved. A The batter representing the o posing nine is supposed to occupy the ome plate, which is bounded by straight lines, and is preferably made square, and maybe slightly hollowed out or concaved on top, to correspond to the curve described by the swinging end of the bat.

The portion of the board representing the field proper, is divided into six parts, certain of which include the paris just referred to as supposed to be occupied by the nine not at the bat. The six dlvisions referred to, are as follows z-At the upper right and left hand corners, two similar divisions each marked Home run; at the upper endl of the board between these two divlslons and extendin underneath rthem to the sides of the boar a narrow division marked Three base hit;

' run sections. y

eatures of basebe substantially be played by two persons j each of which represents a base ball nine.

.least four balls or miss' l The balls are preferably immediately underneath this, aA

large division marked Two base hit; between this latter and the 'center square o1 diamond, a space marked One base hit, and the space within the ring, marked Inlield hit one base. These spaces just described, are each bounded in whole or in part, by one or more straight and byl one or'more curved lines, and they all extend from one side 'to the other of the part of thefield which they occupy, except the home Hence it will be seen that the field to one side ofthe of the board is designed to equal to the otherside, in desirability as a landing place for the ball.

o coni ensate for the space on the left side .of t e ield occupied by the short sto the third basemanv is given less space, an the circular ond baseman is shlfted to the rlght.

The six main divisions of the field just referred to and marked One base hit, Two base hit, etc., may be more clearly desi nated from eachother by being differenty colored.

The different subdivided spaces, su posed to be occupied by the 'men in the field, may be clearly separated by very thin boundary elevations 6, or they may be slightly raised or sunken in the ilierent portions of the board which they occupy. Instead of or in addition to varied coloring, the main divisions of the board may be clearly separated from each other by being alternately shghtly raised and slightly depressed, as for instance, c zontal shading may4 be slightly elevated above the portions provided vwith vertical shading, or vice versa.

Each board is usuall the portion of vertical center provided with at es-two polyhedral (Figs. 3, and 6), one cylindrical, and one round. The polyhedral missiles will have the least tendency to. roll from the home plate or from the board the cylindrical more; 'and the round ball will have the greatest tendency ofall to leave the board.

of rubber, but ma be of any other desire shapes or 'materia but we prefer to usually playwith the elongated balls, and this constitutes a special feature ofv our invention as will presently be explained. c

The home plate 5 is at the-point tobe occupied by the batter.

space occupied by the sec-- those portions provided with h ori-l Immediately above llO 1 swing backand hit chain 4.

In playing the me, the erson re resenting the outs (t e nine not at t e bat) is allowed to place the elongated missile on the home plate, 5 counterfeiting the skill of the liver pitcher by placing the ball on any part of the plate hema desire, 'and at any angl or on end, usin 's judgment as to the t position in w ch to plaice the ball in order to fool the batter or to bale his skill. I The player at the bat swings the same not less than a designated distance out form the home plate, and releases it in such manner and osition as to cause it to the ball if possible to send the same afield. Bunts are attempted by hitting the ball at such fine angles in spite of its different vpositions on the late, or the different angles at which it is p aced, asto send it to desirable parts of the field, 1I. e. to parts not occupiedl by the supposed nine opposing players. The-parts of the -eld supposed to be covered by these players are mar ed Out on the drawings, and have already beeni'referred to. They are all more or less oblong except the space for the center fielder and second baseman, which spaces are circular. ,If the ball when sent afield by the bat, stops in one of these last named spaces, the batter is out. lf it stops in any of the other parts of the board he is credited with a hit or single, two bagger, three bagger, home run, or oul, according to what is indicated on that part of the board by the phrase Que base, Two base, etc., as the case happens to be. If desired counters may be used for men on thel bases.

The game is to be played according to regular base ball rules regarding fouls, strikes, foul strikes, innings,77 etc.

As thus far described there is nothing in the gaine corresponding to balls, or bases on balls; and when it is desired to introduce Ithis feature into the game, the itcher, instead of deliberately placing the all on the home plate is required to throw or drop it onto the plate from some designated point, as for instance, from just un'der the short cord or chain 4, which suports the bat, the bat having at the time to be held back in a horizontal position out o the way. lf the ball stops on the plate the batter swings the bat to cause it to strike the ball, as described above, but if it does not stop on the plate it is called a ball, and the batter is not required 'to strike at it.

The liollowing out or concaving o the support for holdin top side of the home plate ,keeps the balls from bouncing ofi so easily when dropped onto it.

A point to be noticed in our construction is that when the bat is drawn back and released, it will be allowed to swing backward once over the home plate, so Vthat if y it does notknockithe ball alield on the forward stroke, it may strike it on the rearward stroke and knock it foul, or into the catcher box.

Thus a 'game of realbaseball is very really simulated in va simple and enjoyable manner.

The board .is provided around its margin with a raised boundary a, to prevent the balls ormissiles from rolling entirely oli the board, at any time, when projected thereupon by the bat.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A game appliance comprisin a board laid off to represent a base-ball lie d; a missile adapted to be projected upon the board; and a bat supported upon the board and arranged to sweep back, and forth over the same to strike the missile to project the same upon the board, said bat being ada ted to describe a downward curve in sai ybackward and' forward movements, the ortion of the board underneathl the bat an upon which the missile is placed being, concav to correspond to the curved sweep of the bat.

2. In a base ball game board the combination with the board and missile of a home pla upon which the missile is to be placed; a bat; a llexible sup ort for the bat; and means engaged by.sa1 flexible the bat suspended in a vertical position a ove the center of the home pla-te to swing back and forth across the saine, to reject the missile therefrom, the to si e o the home plate being concav to correspond to the sweep of the lower end o the bat.

3. In a base ball game board, the combination with the board, of a home plate; a bat suspended above the center of the same, the home late bein concaved on vits top side to con orm to t e sweep of the lower end of the bat; and a missile, adapted to be laid on the home plate to be driven therefrom by the swinging 'of the bat, the missile being provided with a plurality of fiat faces to cause it to easily lie in any p0- sition upon saidconcaved surface, without rolling toward the center thereof.

Ll. The combination of a base ball gaine board having its surface laid oli to represent a base ball field; and a missile bounded by dat faces and adapted to be used on said board, the board being subdivided into arts having different values as landing aces Jor the missile, and said subdivisions eing separated irom each other by a thin boundary of very slight elevation, wherebyga spent names to this specification in the presence missile cloming to restv partly on one side o'f two subscribing Witnesses.

and part y on the other side of one o said boundary elevations will be invariably tilted WILLIAM C' TILMES' to one side or the other, thereby easily de- FRED G' KALLMEYER termining which portion of the field the! Witnesses: missile shall be credited to. .i EDWL H. BRINI7 In testimony whereof We have signed our I J. C. BURNS. 

